In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louis Zamperini had already transformed himself from child delinquent to prodigious athlete, running in the Berlin Olympics.Now he must embark on one of the Second World War’s most extraordinary odysseys. Zamperini faces thousands of miles od open ocean on a failing raft. Beyond lieonly greater trials in Japan’s prisoner of war camps.
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Summary
Overall This book kept me up reading late into the night. I knew he was going to survive because how else would he come back to tell his story? But that didn’t matter. I had to keep reading until I knew he was home safe with his mama. In her straightforward, methodical way, Laura Hillenbrand tells the life story of Louis Zamperini in Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. He started off as a hoodlum running through the streets stealing things for fun. All that running paid off when in high school and college he discovered he could run faster than just about anyone. He makes it all the way to the 1936 Berlin Olympics falling short of a medal, but eager to keep training. All of his plans came to halt when Pearl Harbor was bombed. He was drafted, trained as bombardier and sent to the Pacific. He was captured, tortured and survived. This is his story of how he survived and returned unbroken.
Violence The author describes how the Japanese tortured their prisoners.